American Activism

Let's watch just how nice conservatives are to their reps when someone puts gun control on them.

I've kinda always wanted to see it.

Sure, Congress will act, but the Supreme Court has spent the last 15 years making sure that even the most moderate, milquetoast gun reforms get struck down. I know the current Justices are hypocrites that make a mockery of precedent, but considering they're the ones that created the precedent (particularly Alito, Roberts, and Thomas), it's going to be hard for Congress to write a gun control law that doesn't force several Justices to either strike it down or invalidated their own opinions.

A constitutional amendment isn't impossible, but I think the NRA would still have enough juice to prevent Congress from reaching a two-thirds consensus, and definitely enough to stop three-quarters of states from ratifying it. The billionaire class has spent a lot of money making gun control extremely difficult, and I think that's about to bite them in the ass.

The only way they'll get rid of most of the guns is by searching property to property. Many won't comply with unconstitutional bans. And they don't have the agreement to change the constitution about this. Too fucking bad, the working class will remain armed. I wish ammo hadn't gotten so expensive though.

One can hope

Hottest on record, I hear!

Sounds like we need 49 more adjustments.

A surgery that my little one needed was being denied by insurance two weeks ago. Yesterday when calling for the pre surgery instructions we were notified that last surgery was approved. So we were doing all three requested surgeries at once and only having to put her under once.

I don't know if this was the cause but there was a 180 on the approval.

Insurance companies behaved themselves for a few days. That's already saved lots of lives, making the whole thing balance out as a positive.

I'd be banned by the admins for suggesting how this momentum could be kept going.

Oh it did! I'm actually surprised (positively) about the vast social-media response.

It sends a message and that message was heard. Rolling Stone and probably other outlets, published an article talking about the collective disdain that the working class has expressed in the wake towards the healthcare industry—a hatred that reaches across aisles. It’s a tiny reminder that the working class outnumber the ruling class. Don’t rule out more things happening. People get inspired.

which accomplish nothing

Seems to have accomplished something. What are you doing about it? Trying to stir shit up from abroad I assume. How about you fuck right off and let us deal with it.

Then don't stop shooting them until everything gets better.

economic Uncle Ruckus

The rich man provides us with meaningful work and purpose and we throw it back in his face by unionizing and wanting to take more of his money! We nasty poors must follow the rich man's example and one day we may be as cultured and decent as he is.

Praise the rich man and his benevolent ways!

Yeah, very well beaten... I was talking about Luigi at work today (EU person here) and when I said it is a young guy from a wealthy family, one dick stood up and said "oh, so it was just a spoiled kid?" And there's probably much more people like this around me.

That's just it though, the "passing glance" types that don't pay much attention to anything at all will just assume the truth is whatever headline runs across their "feed of choice" the most often. Usually from large corporate outlets.

Jesus christ that's...amazing.

Just stop eating at McDonalds in general. There are equally as pricey but healthier and tastier burger joints out there (or both). Check out your local restaurants; they're likely on par in price.

When did a Pennsylvania McDonald's get involved before?

Realistically, if all the school shooters start going after CEOs instead (I certainly wouldn't complain if they did) you'd very quickly see gun violence go from "unsolvable" to "very solvable".

We're protecting them from unnecessary care.

Yeesh friend, kinda jumped down OP’s throat here, no? Seems pretty uncharitable to go from their posted meme to “this cartoonish fantasy world of yours”, and then take that even further.

Uhm, are we looking at the same comic? Because it most definitely is making an assessment of the impact of the shooter's actions. What's the thing being impacted? I would say world. Charitable interpretation seems to me to point in the opposite direction of what you're saying.

"The last guy got killed in the street for doing this shit, you're going to do the exact same shit right?"

It's like the mustache-twirling movie villains when an underling gets merc'd for a hairbrained strategy:

"Congratulations, number 3. You've been promoted! Go get 'em!"

If you're willing to believe a couple of random news outlets:

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/09/altoona-mcdonalds-luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare

https://www.ibtimes.com/altoona-mcdonalds-flooded-angry-1-star-reviews-after-arrest-suspected-unitedhealthcare-ceo-3754683

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/9/altoona-pennsylvania-mcdonald-reviews-go-negative-/

Thanks for the sources! I wish that news articles would actually cite how they know things — it's annoying to me that their statements regarding the reviews are essentially conjecture — I don't want to have to feel like I need to just take their word for it.

Not hard to imagine thag G**gle would be on the case, deleting reviews by now.

Fair point.

and gone newest review was from 2 weeks ago

Good catch. Given that that it's currently still available ^[1], I would guess that it's likely not the case that Google is purging reviews. Imo, one review is hardly review bombing, but at least that's proof of one claim made by a news outlet ^[2] (It's terrible, imo, that we have to be the ones fact checking claims being made by news organizations. Doesn't that make us the journalists?).